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Top 15 Gelsey Kirkland Quotes (2025 Update)

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.”

1. “The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”

2. “Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you’re in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.”

3. “As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you’re in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.”

4. “I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.”

5. “Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.”

6. “Often, when you’ve reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it’s hard to remember that.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.”

7. “The nature of my compulsion was such that I danced in my sleep. The entire household was sometimes awakened by loud thumping sounds coming from my room.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.”

8. “In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.”

9. “As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.”

10. “When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I’ve been what others wanted – in dancing and in life. Now I’m doing it my way.”

11. “I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I’ve been what others wanted – in dancing and in life. Now I’m doing it my way.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “Within the holy circle of the stage, geometrical principles are used to organize physical energy so that the beauty of the human form reveals a web of drama and truth – that is the essence of dance as I have come to know it.”

12. “Within the holy circle of the stage, geometrical principles are used to organize physical energy so that the beauty of the human form reveals a web of drama and truth – that is the essence of dance as I have come to know it.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “You’ve got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you’ll feel, the lighter you’ll look.”

13. “You’ve got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you’ll feel, the lighter you’ll look.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “The gift of the teacher is to let go before the aspiring artist becomes locked within a closed system of instruction.”

14. “The gift of the teacher is to let go before the aspiring artist becomes locked within a closed system of instruction.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I’d be sick so I wouldn’t have to go on.”

15. “The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I’d be sick so I wouldn’t have to go on.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “I danced with passion to spite the music.”

16. “I danced with passion to spite the music.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.”

17. “The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

Gelsey Kirkland Quote: “If I was not able to control my social world I could at least begin to coordinate the movement of my own body.”

18. “If I was not able to control my social world I could at least begin to coordinate the movement of my own body.”

— Gelsey Kirkland

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